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[Magic The Gathering Arena] Fires of Treachery banned!

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    Shadowen wrote: »
    Echo wrote: »
    ...also Ghalta.

    Hostage Taker MVP

    I played against a Helm Of The Host/Hostage Taker deck last night.

    That was...irritating.

    I'm so turned on right now.

  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    Big fan of Hostage Taker/Yarok/Helm of the host nonsense

  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    now i wantto make a Agent of Treachery / Helm of the Host Deck

  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    now i wantto make a Agent of Treachery / Helm of the Host Deck

    Youll never play anything else

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    I got close to that with a Agent/Quasiduplicate deck; I was playing against someone with very few permanents, some sort of mono-black discard deck, maybe they just couldn't find their Dreadful Presence. So I ramped up to Agent mana and took one of their Swamps. All I had left was a Quasiduplicate, so I hit my Agent with it twice and took two more Swamps.

    They conceded before I could end my turn and draw nine cards.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Nothing feels weirder than facing a tower of power in fuckin limited

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • VyolynceVyolynce Registered User regular
    Nothing feels weirder than facing a tower of power in fuckin limited

    Hey sometimes it's hard to make cuts...

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  • admanbadmanb unionize your workplace Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    Nothing feels weirder than facing a tower of power in fuckin limited

    In Magic Online this would happen every so often when someone would forget to submit their deck build and the game auto-submitted every card they drafted + auto-fill lands.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Also I got a deck with 2 8/8 demon fliers and a sephara

    And I won a match because I had it stacked with fairie miscreants and one of the 2/3 mill when you play a blue spell cards.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • APODionysusAPODionysus Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    admanb wrote: »
    Nothing feels weirder than facing a tower of power in fuckin limited

    In Magic Online this would happen every so often when someone would forget to submit their deck build and the game auto-submitted every card they drafted + auto-fill lands.

    One of my favorite Kenji stream moments: it was Cube. His opponent was on Storm. Kenji saw the opponent’s entire deck game 1... and the ONLY wincon, period, was Brain Freeze. So Kenji added like.. 400 lands in sideboarding. Maybe more!Cause MTGO would let you do that. The client sloooowed to a crawl. Somehow Kenji eventually drew a creature and his opponent scooped.


    Edit: I was wrong it was WAY MORE than 400 lamds. He submitted a 1244 card deck

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  • VyolynceVyolynce Registered User regular
    admanb wrote: »
    Nothing feels weirder than facing a tower of power in fuckin limited

    In Magic Online this would happen every so often when someone would forget to submit their deck build and the game auto-submitted every card they drafted + auto-fill lands.

    One of my favorite Kenji stream moments: it was Cube. His opponent was on Storm. Kenji saw the opponent’s entire deck game 1... and the ONLY wincon, period, was Brain Freeze. So Kenji added like.. 400 lands in sideboarding. Maybe more!Cause MTGO would let you do that. The client sloooowed to a crawl. Somehow Kenji eventually drew a creature and his opponent scooped.


    Edit: I was wrong it was WAY MORE than 400 lamds. He submitted a 1244 card deck

    To clarify, MTGO would let you do that because that is absolutely something you can do in paper as well. It's just less of a surprise.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    And in paper you have to be able to shuffle it without help in a timely fashion. 1200 cards is like what, a longbox? Probably too big.

  • BoomerAang SquadBoomerAang Squad Registered User regular
    Played against the same WotC member two games in a row. Neat.

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  • VyolynceVyolynce Registered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    And in paper you have to be able to shuffle it without help in a timely fashion. 1200 cards is like what, a longbox? Probably too big.

    Yeah 1200 was probably overkill but the theory is sound.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    WTB in-game roper report button

  • BreakfastPMBreakfastPM Registered User regular
    Echo wrote: »
    Shadowen wrote: »
    Echo wrote: »
    ...also Ghalta.

    Hostage Taker MVP

    I played against a Helm Of The Host/Hostage Taker deck last night.

    That was...irritating.

    I'm so turned on right now.

    I have put Helm of the Host on Golgari Findbroker, Ravenous Chupacabra, Ormendahl, and more in my Slimefoot commander deck.

  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    I might be wrong but I think Helm on Ormendahl should just give you a bunch of Abbeys that can't flip.

  • VyolynceVyolynce Registered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    I might be wrong but I think Helm on Ormendahl should just give you a bunch of Abbeys that can't flip.

    Surprisingly, no. You copy whichever side is face up. If it's a card that can transform back (werewolf, Insidious Mist) the copy cannot do so.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    Vyolynce wrote: »
    KalTorak wrote: »
    I might be wrong but I think Helm on Ormendahl should just give you a bunch of Abbeys that can't flip.

    Surprisingly, no. You copy whichever side is face up. If it's a card that can transform back (werewolf, Insidious Mist) the copy cannot do so.

    ah interesting, maybe they changed that back when they gave back-faces the mana cost of the front sides.

  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    I might be wrong but I think Helm on Ormendahl should just give you a bunch of Abbeys that can't flip.

    not unless you turned the land in to a creature and got a helm on that, then you'd get a bunch of useless lands that can't flip. Westvale Arbys if you will.

  • VyolynceVyolynce Registered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    Vyolynce wrote: »
    KalTorak wrote: »
    I might be wrong but I think Helm on Ormendahl should just give you a bunch of Abbeys that can't flip.

    Surprisingly, no. You copy whichever side is face up. If it's a card that can transform back (werewolf, Insidious Mist) the copy cannot do so.

    ah interesting, maybe they changed that back when they gave back-faces the mana cost of the front sides.

    I think it's always been that way; Evil Twin was in og Innistrad, so there had to be a ruling. It just doesn't come up very often.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    ...so I just slapped two Helms of the Host into my Muldrotha deck and putting that on a Plaguecrafter or Ravenous Chupa = *chefs kiss*

  • admanbadmanb unionize your workplace Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 2019
    KalTorak wrote: »
    And in paper you have to be able to shuffle it without help in a timely fashion. 1200 cards is like what, a longbox? Probably too big.

    You'd also have to sleeve all those lands.

    It'd be pretty funny if you did all that and then they had a Lab Maniac in their sideboard.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    Two thirds Risen Reef decks today. Can't wait for that Brew format.

  • milskimilski Poyo! Registered User regular
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    admanb wrote: »
    KalTorak wrote: »
    And in paper you have to be able to shuffle it without help in a timely fashion. 1200 cards is like what, a longbox? Probably too big.

    You'd also have to sleeve all those lands.

    It'd be pretty funny if you did all that and then they had a Lab Maniac in their sideboard.

    The solution is to sideboard into a deck that's solely an unsleeved stack of one basic land type and let your opponent deck themselves. A deck of all the same card doesn't need to be shuffled!

    I ate an engineer
  • VyolynceVyolynce Registered User regular
    milski wrote: »
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    admanb wrote: »
    KalTorak wrote: »
    And in paper you have to be able to shuffle it without help in a timely fashion. 1200 cards is like what, a longbox? Probably too big.

    You'd also have to sleeve all those lands.

    It'd be pretty funny if you did all that and then they had a Lab Maniac in their sideboard.

    The solution is to sideboard into a deck that's solely an unsleeved stack of one basic land type and let your opponent deck themselves. A deck of all the same card doesn't need to be shuffled!

    Lost in the Woods.dec was a thing you could do in Innistrad/Dark Ascension, but it obviously wasn't 100% land.

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  • APODionysusAPODionysus Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    So,

    I missed all of RNA (and WAR) due to ... an unplanned mtg hiatus. Back now and got Arena last month finally. Anyway with RNA on Arena “flashback” I wasn’t sure I was going to draft it over M20 since I’m so far behind on knowledge. But did some reading and learned of the Clear The Mind Deck. Which is EVERYTHING I want to do in magic. So on my break today, I booted up Arena and put this together

    1x Pteramander
    1x Sage Row Savant
    3x Slimebind
    1x Final Payment
    1x Essence Capture
    3x Clear the Mind
    3x Thought Collapse
    1x Deputy of Detention
    1x Arresters Admontion
    1x Code of Constraint
    1x Azorius Locket
    1x Sphinx pf New Prahv
    1x Sphinx’s Insight
    1x Homongulous
    1x Prying Eyes

    1x Depose/Deploy
    1x Warrent/Warden

    2x Orhov Guilgate
    1x Swamp
    5x Plains
    9x Island

    I’m 1-1 (back at work now. Loss was to double Ill Gotten Inheritance) but holy god is this fun. I absolutely could have drafted it better too but not bad for a first go.

    This is pure joy. I’m gonna Burn SO MANY GEMS.

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  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    alright i hit gold for the season. just enough time left in the month to mono-nonsense

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  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    alright i hit gold for the season. just enough time left in the month to mono-nonsense

    Mono black is pretty legit right now

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    So,

    I missed all of RNA (and WAR) due to ... an unplanned mtg hiatus. Back now and got Arena last month finally. Anyway with RNA on Arena “flashback” I wasn’t sure I was going to draft it over M20 since I’m so far behind on knowledge. But did some reading and learned of the Clear The Mind Deck. Which is EVERYTHING I want to do in magic. So on my break today, I booted up Arena and put this together

    1x Pteramander
    1x Sage Row Savant
    3x Slimebind
    1x Final Payment
    1x Essence Capture
    3x Clear the Mind
    3x Thought Collapse
    1x Deputy of Detention
    1x Arresters Admontion
    1x Code of Constraint
    1x Azorius Locket
    1x Sphinx pf New Prahv
    1x Sphinx’s Insight
    1x Homongulous
    1x Prying Eyes

    1x Depose/Deploy
    1x Warrent/Warden

    2x Orhov Guilgate
    1x Swamp
    5x Plains
    9x Island

    I’m 1-1 (back at work now. Loss was to double Ill Gotten Inheritance) but holy god is this fun. I absolutely could have drafted it better too but not bad for a first go.

    This is pure joy. I’m gonna Burn SO MANY GEMS.

    if you want to do M20 you can do the same with a couple Loaming Shamans

  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    alright i hit gold for the season. just enough time left in the month to mono-nonsense

    Mono black is pretty legit right now

    oooh, I'm interested in anything that doesn't make me throw wilds are duals yes

  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    alright i hit gold for the season. just enough time left in the month to mono-nonsense

    Mono black is pretty legit right now

    oooh, I'm interested in anything that doesn't make me throw wilds are duals yes

    4x Disfigure
    4x Gutterbones
    4x Knight of the Ebon Legion
    4x Vampire of the Dire Moon
    3x Cast Down
    4x Eternal Taskmaster
    1x Find/Finality
    4x Drill Bit
    4x Rotting Regisaur
    4x Spawn of Mayhem
    2x Cavalier of Night

    22x Swamps

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  • VyolynceVyolynce Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    alright i hit gold for the season. just enough time left in the month to mono-nonsense

    Mono black is pretty legit right now

    oooh, I'm interested in anything that doesn't make me throw wilds are duals yes

    4x Disfigure
    4x Gutterbones
    4x Knight of the Ebon Legion
    4x Vampire of the Dire Moon
    3x Cast Down
    4x Eternal Taskmaster
    1x Find/Finality
    4x Drill Bit
    4x Rotting Regisaur
    4x Spawn of Mayhem
    2x Cavalier of Night

    22x Swamps

    Interesting. Dread Presence too expensive at 3B (really 4B if you want to get value)?

    I've been winning a fair number of games with Dread Specter too but I have a very different deck since I've already spent the wildcards on duals:

    1 Dread Presence
    2 Kaya, Orzhov Usurper
    3 Mortify
    3 Kaya's Wrath
    1 Cavalier of Night
    1 Despark
    3 Cry of the Carnarium
    4 Seekers' Squire
    1 Ethereal Absolution
    4 Dread Shade
    1 Massacre Girl
    2 Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord
    2 Vraska's Contempt
    4 Temple of Silence
    4 Yarok's Fenlurker
    1 Oath of Kaya
    1 Golos, Tireless Pilgrim
    1 Planar Cleansing
    1 Ixalan's Binding

    2 Watery Grave
    2 Blood Crypt
    2 Overgrown Tomb
    4 Godless Shrine
    4 Isolated Chapel
    6 Swamp

    Also I don't normally play ranked (every now and then to get some extra season rewards) so this is just for fun. Smashing someone with an 11/11 Dread Specter with lifelink (thanks to Sorin) never gets old though. Golos is mostly in there to be cute; you could cut it and the chromatic duals and not really miss anything.

    Vyolynce on
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  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    Ive seen Presence do work in mono black control but yeah too expensive not aggressive enough

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  • BoomerAang SquadBoomerAang Squad Registered User regular
    PSA: Chandra, Acolyte of Flame's minus 2 does not work on cards with spectacle.

  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    Yeah that bug was reported over a month ago, you cannot pay the spectacle cost for any cards targeted with her -2 even though it is legal in the rules to do so.

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  • discriderdiscrider Registered User regular
    Managed to 7-2 a draft for the first time with this:
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    But that was over three days play :|

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    That was a weird-ass game.

    For lulz I put 2x Ashiok in my Muldrotha deck.

    Started with three lands + Ashiok in hand, never got any more lands during the entire game, exiled half his deck thanks to Ghost Form on Ashiok.

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    Maaaan I don't want to spend wildcards on boring lands. :<

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  • ShadowenShadowen Snores in the morning LoserdomRegistered User regular
    Got my six wins and my fancy swamp.

    Recently I started doing a dumb thing. But it's a thing I wanna do and it's not costing me a penny, so whatevs.

    So first off, I've started opening packs until I have three from a specific set. This is because I'm at a point with my wildcards where each time I open three packs, I get a wildcard. So regardless of what junk the packs hand me, I get a wildcard out of it.

    Second, I still buy packs because I don't draft, but I never buy 2020, because my friend had pre-ordered 2020 for me and more often than not when I open the pack I get everything as a duplicate except for the rares (which are sometimes duplicates; I have playsets of rares from 2020). Today, for example, I opened three 2020 packs I got from leveling and got nothing but a couple wildcards (including a mythic wild), Gargos, and Grafdigger's Cage (already had two).

    Third, I buy packs in batches from sets, so I feel like I'm making progress in collecting that set.

    And given when I started playing, I never got bothered getting any packs from Ixalan, Rivals, or Dominaria. The only cards from those sets I ever got were from the decks and upgrades you got with the Mastery system they introduced earlier this year (not the current bullshit). So even though they're getting rotated out in like six weeks I bought three packs of Ixalan over the past few days, will be doing Rivals now, and Dominaria after that...and I might just keep doing that (maybe interspersing Guilds and Allegiance, the other sets I have the fewest cards from) until they rotate out.

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